The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.